What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen every day.

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

Find a way to express yourgratitude for the wealthand abundance in your life.

I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.

The quality strategy is about making the right decision at the right time which requires quality information.

Listen should be on 60-70% and talking or speaking on from 40 up to 30%.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.